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Re: Selenites (was Re: equinox)

From:Pablo Flores <fflores@...>
Date:Saturday, September 26, 1998, 14:04
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Nik Taylor wrote:

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>> 23-hour cycle, which seems to agree with most humans' circadian cycle >> or biological clock). > >Actually, a 25-hour cycle would be closer. Deprived of any indication >of time, most people revert to a 25-hour wake-sleep cycle, and most >people can adjust to about three hours on either side of this, so >anywhere between 22 and 28 hours.
Either our sources are different, or I remembered a wrong number. Anyway, maybe people could *vote* for the day length. Twould be a = terrible electoral fight -- imagine if you could decide to extend your = sleeping hours by voting on the base of the time-measuring system! The = Lazy Sleepers and the Tightly Scheduled vs. ... Well, actually, who'd be = against? I remember reading about the protests in England when they adjusted the = calendar from Julian to Gregorian, and people went out to the strees to = claim that they'd been robbed ten days out of their lives. --Pablo Flores ------ =_NextPart_000_01BDE93D.9AB56D20 Content-Type: application/ms-tnef Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 eJ8+IisOAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAENgAQAAgAAAAIAAgABBJAG ADwBAAABAAAADAAAAAMAADADAAAACwAPDgAAAAACAf8PAQAAAFIAAAAAAAAAgSsfpL6jEBmdbgDd AQ9UAgAAAABDb25zdHJ1Y3RlZCBMYW5ndWFnZXMgTGlzdABTTVRQAENPTkxBTkdAQlJPV05WTS5C Uk9XTi5FRFUAAAAeAAIwAQAAAAUAAABTTVRQAAAAAB4AAzABAAAAGgAAAENPTkxBTkdAQlJPV05W TS5CUk9XTi5FRFUAAAADABUMAQAAAAMA/g8GAAAAHgABMAEAAAAdAAAAJ0NvbnN0cnVjdGVkIExh bmd1YWdlcyBMaXN0JwAAAAACAQswAQAAAB8AAABTTVRQOkNPTkxBTkdAQlJPV05WTS5CUk9XTi5F RFUAAAMAADkAAAAACwBAOgEAAAACAfYPAQAAAAQAAAAAAAADkzkBCIAHABgAAABJUE0uTWljcm9z b2Z0IE1haWwuTm90ZQAxCAEEgAEAIAAAAFJFOiBTZWxlbml0ZXMgKHdhcyBSZTogZXF1aW5veCkA kwoBBYADAA4AAADOBwkAGgALAAQABgAGABMBASCAAwAOAAAAzgcJABoACgA4AB4ABgBeAQEJgAEA IQAAAEE2OEYxMTU1Mjk1NUQyMTE5QzI5NDQ0NTUzNTQwMDAwALcGAQOQBgAgBQAAEgAAAAsAIwAA AAAAAwAmAAAAAAALACkAAAAAAAMANgAAAAAAQAA5AEBjfIZW6b0BHgBwAAEAAAAgAAAAUkU6IFNl bGVuaXRlcyAod2FzIFJlOiBlcXVpbm94KQACAXEAAQAAABYAAAABvelWhnRVEY+nVSkR0pwpREVT VAAAAAAeAB4MAQAAAAUAAABTTVRQAAAAAB4AHwwBAAAAGwAAAGZmbG9yZXNAdGF1LndhbWFuaS5h cGMub3JnAAADAAYQrQdn9QMABxDvAgAAHgAIEAEAAABlAAAATklLVEFZTE9SV1JPVEU6MjMtSE9V UkNZQ0xFLFdISUNIU0VFTVNUT0FHUkVFV0lUSE1PU1RIVU1BTlNDSVJDQURJQU5DWUNMRU9SQklP TE9HSUNBTENMT0NLKUFDVFVBTExZLAAAAAACAQkQAQAAAJgDAACUAwAAFwYAAExaRnUMsFJf/wAK AQ8CFQKkA+QF6wKDAFATA1QCAGNoCsBzZXRuMgYABsMCgzIERgIAcHBycTEgCFUHsgKAfX8KgAjP CdkCgAqBDbELYG5gZzEwMzQK+xLxc2wxOAqgA2B0BZAFQE7AaWsgVGF5FTEYDOggIHcZAjoKjxpo G3XUWy4doF0bdT4YDxkUQD4gMjMtaAhhIEBjeWNsZSwbAGhKaRGwIBHwZW0EIHSYbyBhCcIbAGl0 ISAlBGBzBUBodQOBcyfBIGBpcmNhZAcwA6A/IHMbdxo7Hl8fZwWxYmk9FSFnIQAHQCBgFTBja/wp LiRPJV8YuiifKa8YukpBGUB1B0BseSDAYZ0f4DUgGRsACGBsZCdgJyIQKCER8HIuGvBEZVkToGl2 CYAnMGYhwG5ceSALgCOgI4B0J4Bu/yt/LI8YujGhMnAHgCDAIoP4cGVvC1AiEBWgMWAAIAMhky8H d2FrZS1z/yCgMSAgZgBwMDAigjK/M8+fGLo2dSOAA6AjkGp1IqHrIaIG4HU3MWgh8iAiBCD5AiAg ZSJBFEEAkA2wNYPlIPBzIMBzbznPOt8Yup8x0SDgBJAiEDBQdHcJ4fcf4BIgOUIyGuA+syiPHMve RT9UIDJAkAhwYweRCsB/IhAjoA3QQ+ECMCDABbFJ/zbRB4AG0EPhMDAu8BsRF1DcIG4i4EoxRZZB Q6EZwJ82ARnAMFE8pjADKnYZEXwqIAIQBcA/YUjQGcAg7yCgF1AiUDDgVC/3LvAZIO5yBRACYCIQ ZSCgGUAFsCEn8WZpZ2gFQC0tNzIAAMAnwG4iEAaQIHmfCGBNNQWBP8IhoWV4GSB/OVFSgT+ROIIL gErwPrRinzHwTbFU0j8RTlJiYRHw9z/0U3EHcS0HgFaQCHFK4WxzeSKgIWAhGaBOYUz0YXox8FM4 ggSQSIE5Uf9OUgdgUWEusAYAEbAJgDAQlTFxdkWAIB2hIFdQoE5sLtEuZyDgbydPpGf7C3EioD8b dRt1Scg20SOR/0rhPfZMsRkCIqAEIAuAR2D/F1AXMTAwQ8FWIzHwPVQxcZ9OUifhU/EKwQNSIEow EOsjsiGhRxWgZwWwI7E5JP82dURQAjBH0TczTlIioAnR/yGDIJALcGQgIlAyYGIzXSP7RHEDYGIw UFnxRHFOkT7x/z4hVtQjYE7AMVFFh14MUaDmUAGgFTAgRhUxB5AbdQUUwQBuYAMAEBAAAAAAAwAR EAAAAABAAAcwINp3dlXpvQFAAAgwINp3dlXpvQEeAD0AAQAAAAUAAABSRTogAAAAALGF ------ =_NextPart_000_01BDE93D.9AB56D20--